Just before Myanmar's Thingyan New Year water festival in mid-April, I had finished uploading a Facebook advertisement for my travel business. The ad, promoting New Year tourism packages, was packed with buoyant adjectives and photographs of beaming guests group-hugging and flicking V-shaped peace signs to the camera.
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